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Comorin

[ kom-er-in ]

noun

  1. Cape, a cape on the S tip of India, extending into the Indian Ocean.


Comorin

/ ˈkɒmərɪn /

noun

  1. Cape Comorin
    a headland at the southernmost point of India, in Tamil Nadu state
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

I had taken myself to the beach at Cape Comorin, the very southernmost tip of the southernmost state, where three oceans were washing over my bare feet.

From Salon

I had recently taken a job as a volunteer teacher at the International In­stitute for Social Entrepreneurs in the city of Trivandrum in the state of Kerala in southern India—nearly as far south in India as a person can go without stumbling off the end of Cape Comorin and plung­ing into the Laccadive Sea.

From Salon

Now the English government rules everywhere, and Peace reigns from Cape Comorin to the Himalayas.

In 1818 the forfeited possessions of the Peshwa added to their extent; and these acquisitions, with others which have more recently fallen to the paramount power by cession, conquest or failure of heirs, form a continuous territory stretching from the Nerbudda to Cape Comorin.

These two mountain ranges unite at their northern extremities with the Vindhya chain of mountains, and thus is formed a vast triangle supporting at a considerable elevation the expanse of table-land which stretches from Cape Comorin to the valley of the Nerbudda.

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